Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy

Stanford University Graduate School of Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Southern Methodist University

University of Louisiana at Monroe

Connecting the World with Secure Disruptive Technologies that drive new efficiencies and expanding revenue paths

McKinney, Texas, United States

Smart Strategists is a privately owned, boutique consultancy offering board governance, advisory, and fractional executive leadership in global strategies with emerging technologies and innovation, which bring pivots to your market opportunities bringing solutions that leverage the possibilities of the internet of things, or your connected world, to transform life and business solutions as we know it. Consultancy practices focus on 5G Networks, Data Centers, Edge, Cybersecurity, and IoT: Industrial 4.0 IoT, Smart Cities, Smart vehicles, Smart Homes, and Smart Health 2.0. Leveraging the emerging technologies that support an efficient, agile, secure next generation 5G networks with focus on foundational connections with cyber security principals, AI enhanced analytics, and blockchain authentications.   Establishing solution strategies that will change how we live and work.As the Principal, Board Advisory Services of Smart Life Strategist, Brenda Boehm has built record-breaking revenue and profit for early and mid-stage companies through Organizational Leadership and Global Service Provider partnerships in IoT, Enterprise, Mobility, and Cloud applications. Her clear insights into customer needs, passionate drive to deliver results, backed by the collaborative and trusted culture her leadership creates has produced the following:●	Technology and Thought Leadership: Recognized industry disruption, harnessed technology changes for innovation, and led organizations to new incremental revenue. ●	Strategic Partnering: Built coveted high yield relationships with global wireless service providers and joint partnerships based upon a reputation of trust and delivery.●	Shareholder Value: Created corporate and stockholder value and enabled sale of companies at high multiples.

Smart Strategies  -  -  BB Executive Management

Board Governance, Board Advisor, Fractional CEO, CSO, CTO, CPO, CIO, CISO, CRO

POLIM helps companies drive Digital Transformation by leveraging Product Management with IoT Solutions and enable Innovation

PROLIM Corporation

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

A leadership accelerator dedicated to driving business results by increasing the representation of women in C-suite and business ownership

EWF International

Comprised of 24,000 leading-edge IoT professionals, practitioners and executives from Fortune 1000 enterprises, The Internet of Things Community® is the defacto source of truth for all things IoT. This global network of key decision makers spans across all industries and focuses on adoption, implementation and application of IoT technologies. The IoT Community® has emerged as the foremost thought leader in the ever- evolving industry of IoT technologies by working collaboratively to address the wide variety of barriers, inhibitors, and technical and operational issues that accompany IoT.

IoT Community - Internet of Things Community®

Amazech has extensive experience in city digital transformation, internet of things, sustainability practices, analytics, dashboard management, and security frameworks.

Amazech Solutions

Board Advisor, Interim Chief Innovation Security Officer

There is Power in Every Girl!   Promote next generation of diversity in the workplace for science and technology.

Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas

Board Member and Stem advisory, and Technology Committee

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) represents manufacturers and suppliers of global communications networks through standards development, policy and advocacy, business opportunities, market intelligence, and events and networking. TIA enhances the business environment for broadband, mobile wireless, information technology, networks, cable, satellite and unified communications. Members' products and services empower communications in every industry and market, including healthcare, education, security, public safety, transportation, government, the military, the environment, and entertainment. Visit <a href="http://tiaonline.org">tiaonline.org</a> for more details. TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and is a proud sponsor of ANSI’s Standards Boost Business campaign.As the Chief Strategy Officer, Brenda Boehm, is responsible for the overall strategic direction and provides the technology and product leadership for the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).  ● Brings a deep industry expertise to the table based upon her successful leadership roles at both the executive and board levels with various innovation-focused technology companies from entrepreneurial start-ups; Starent Networks, Tango Networks, and Cyphre to Fortune 100 leaders; Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia. ● Collaborates with a uniquely broad set of experiences and skills that have equipped her with the insight to create a market vision that recognizes industry disruption, an ability to harness change for innovation, develop global market reach and ensure the most successful operational best practices.

Telecommunications Industry Association

Chief Strategy Officer

Cyphre’s BlackTIE® technology augments vulnerable single encryption keys with hardware-encrypted Black Keys to nullify breaches, hacks, and other cybersecurity threats. The Cyphre Encryption Gateway (CEG) leverages Cyphre’s BlackTIE® encryption technology to protect today’s enterprises as they make use of an array of hybrid cloud services. Through the use of CEG, enterprises can extend a diverse set of cloud services to their users while also resting assured that these services are adhering to a standard set of policies and protections determined by the enterprise.  Cyphre’s CEG provides advanced encryption protections for any data resting in an array of public cloud storage and other critical applications while encrypting in accordance with enterprise security policies.  The Cyphre Encryption Gateway provides highly advanced and unassailable protections for the generation, access, and use of encryption keys used in the encryption and protection of data at rest in the cloud as well as data in transit between cloud and enterprise access points. Cyphre’s CEG product can best be defined from an industry perspective as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB).  CEG can be provided in dedicated enterprise premised based solutions as well as a range of CSaaS (Cloud Security as a Service) based solutions.  As the Chair of The Board of Directors, Brenda Boehm leads the:●	Review individual Board of Directors members' KPI's and follow through on responsibilities●	Running of the Board of Directors and making sure it is delivering on its obligations, mission goals and shareholders requirements.

Cyphre

Chair of The Board of Directors

Nokia is a global leader in creating the technologies at the heart of our connected world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers, with the industry’s most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products, services and licensing. From the enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging applications in virtual reality and digital health, we are shaping the future of technology to transform the human experience. A truly global company, we are 160 nationalities working in more than 100 countries. April 2015 Nokia announces the public purchases of Alcatel-Lucent and by January 2016, Nokia completes the merger of Alcatel-Lucent by combining operations, marking the completion of Nokia's latest transformation and the creation of a global leader in technology and services for an IP connected world.As Chief Technology Officer, internally known as the Chief Transformation Technical Advisor, Brenda Boehm created the product strategy, catalysts, and services to bring next generation Alcatel-Lucent, aquired by Nokia's solutions to service providers. ●	Enabled a new suite of communications by extending broadband to the premise, enhanced virtual Core networks, Cloud orchestration, and NFV / SDN applications. ●	Brought in solutions that enable zero touch provisioning strategies, subscriber / network based policies, and pro-active assurance management for all forms of communications, including the expanding world of Internet of Things.

Alcatel-Lucent, aquired by Nokia

Chief Technology Officer

Opus Faveo is a venture development firm that discovers, builds and supports great companies and those who lead them. The goal of Opus Faveo is to create a vibrant, encouraging and optimistic innovation community. Like other start‐up accelerators, Opus Faveo provides innovators with services, mentoring and introductions. Unlike them, Opus Faveo becomes part of the team – doing whatever it takes to make the idea commercially successful over the long term. Opus Faveo is interested in scalable ideas, “born global” companies, experienced first‐time founders, and large company/start‐up interaction.Brenda Boehm, was selected to be a Opus Faveo IDEA Institute's Fellow because of her reputation as an highly successful individual with in her field. As a Fellow, Brenda has been honored and a bears the  responsibility of a small group of Fellows:●	Access to the Opus Faveo venture development process, specific startup ventures, and leaders in public and private sector entities engaged in innovation policy. ●	Encouraged to learn and think originally about innovation, how to create more commercially successful innovation, and the ways in which policy makers in multinational companies, research institutions and governments can better encourage such innovation.●	Contribute to specific projects that allow them to work as part of a team, leverage their expertise while learning new skills, and have concrete accomplishments in the field of innovation.

Opus Faveo Innovation Development

Fellow

Tango Networks empowers enterprises to maximize the reach, impact and value of their communications systems by extending their applications to any mobile device. Their groundbreaking Kinetic Communications Platform provides simple, flexible orchestration of enterprise voice and messaging applications, even in multi-vendor environments. Brenda Boehm was brought on as the Chief Executive Officer and President, to take this technology startup company with a product advantage and formulate a clear vision and strategy complimented with  a culture of accountability. Brenda built the organizational discipline and operational capability to enable growth, global expansion, new product and marketing success. Recruited a leadership team, and built partnerships with leading industry providers to accelerate revenue and market growth. With a large pool of investors, Brenda provided quarterly performance and market updates to the company’s 100+ investors.         ●	Negotiated reseller relationships with Cisco, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent, gaining access to more than $1B of the $42B service provider and Enterprise market. ●	Launched Enterprise offerings through five tier one Global Service Providers, resulting in recurring revenue of more than $350M annually over the next three years.● Created partnership ecosystem with global leading Unified Communications and Small Cell providers for collaboration selling ● Cultivated an extraordinary executive and company culture from a development to a customer-focused orientation● Built a new operations team and structure to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Tango Networks

Chief Executive Officer and President

Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings in the business, education, philanthropy, or creativity arena are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible by providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. With 71,000 employees worldwide, Cisco's tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. Brenda Boehm transitioned from Starent during the Cisco acquisition, as she was appointed as the Global Director of Product Management to create, launch and run this “top five” initiative, representing the company’s entry into the hosted environment. Brenda provided the vision for the product development and the go-to-market strategy while building a high performing team. ●	Leveraged the company’s leading enterprise application portfolio and collaborated across BU’s to bundle disparate products into one product suite. ●	Collaborated with global service provider customers to help buy, integrate and launch the product within their mobility network infrastructures and OSS systems.●	Architected a virtualized hosted application portfolio for enterprise customers projected to generate $500M in new revenue and an expanded customer base.● Won new strategic Global Service Provider accounts and Partners in the U.S., EMEA, and APAC within the first year, and crafted multi-year growth plans with them.● Built and launched 25 geographically-redundant data centers for service providers.● Established a partner ecosystem program to leverage technology from third parties.● Appointed Cisco’s “Women’s Connect” Executive Sponsor.

Cisco

Global Director of Product Management

Starent Networks', later acquired by Cisco in 2010, platforms provided the subscriber and network intelligence, core network functions, and services to manage and control access from any 2.5G, 3G, and 4G radio network to a mobile operator's packet core network. Starent Networks' access-independent technology could be deployed in CDMA2000 (1xEV-DO), UMTS/HSPA, and WiMAX networks.As the Vice President of Business Development, Brenda Boehm's released it was a classic was a classic start-up-to-speed-up situation and set her goal to establish global relationships with customers and partners in the United States, Japan, China, and Europe and led the exploration, analysis, and due diligence of acquisitions.●   Drove company to IPO, and then Cisco’s $3B acquisition.● Accelerated time-to-market through multiple highly strategic acquisitions.● Developed more than 100 new partner and global service provider relationships for multimedia mobile access gateways.● Established the company as a market leader coveted by global partners, creating more than 100 global partnerships.

Vice President of Business Development

Nortel was a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality. Nortel developed next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, to support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies were designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it.  At its peak, Nortel did business in more than 150 countries around the world. As the Director Product Management for Mobile Media and Data Solutions, Brenda Boehm led customer engineering, product management, and the global interoperability labs. Also oversaw a $100M-plus budget, pioneered strategic direction and a product development strategy that brought to market a full ecosystem solution.●	Developed and executed a strategic migration to an exclusive OEM contract with Starent.●	Established unprecedented profit margins for the products.●	Selected as Executive of the Year for Stanford’s Executive Program.